Re: IOCDS - Default Profile

2013-01-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-01-25 05:34, Jake anderson pisze: Dear All, I know this could be a very basic or repetitive question, but I am unable to find any Clue. Here We are playing around with our Z800 machine(Now used only for Testing Purpose), We are adding another LPAR to the IODF. So the currently the sc

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Kees Vernooij kindly wrote: >>Yup. About windoze, try removing your USB stick while something is writing on >>it. Safety of contents on that stick is NOT guaranteed. Or do a CD/DVD >eject >>while doing a pirate copy of something... BTDT. ;-D >If you compare, compare equal situations: I don't

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Thanks to all who replied, I know now what to use as search args, so I retried my searches on my favourite toy. This is what I found in a very ancient proclib (Recalled=browsed=migrated - hard work just to see one stupid line :-D) BROWSE.PROCLIB.backup(X) Command ===>

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Ed Gould
I think this issue was that allocation needed to be driven. With TSO active on the system it was almost never an issue but I think in MSS days there was an issue of demounting the MSS volumes (we got LONG Q4 backup ups) they (IBM) rewrote parts of alloc/dealloc because of MSS and if I recal

IOCDS - Default Profile

2013-01-24 Thread Jake anderson
Dear All, I know this could be a very basic or repetitive question, but I am unable to find any Clue. Here We are playing around with our Z800 machine(Now used only for Testing Purpose), We are adding another LPAR to the IODF. So the currently the scenario is our Reset Profile is "DFLTEST". Now we

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:20 -0600 on 01/24/2013, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS: I've never considered trying to recover KSDS records from just the DATA component from a physical volume dump, but if this was a KSDS with INDEX on a different volume that could be the case you face. If it

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
If it is a physical dump, is there a way to search for matching VTOC entries on the tape? Or could a SPHERE keyword get all associated VSAM files? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > If the original problem was that the dataset was inadvertently deleted, then > you would have

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
If the original problem was that the dataset was inadvertently deleted, then you would have lost the catalog and VVDS entries as well. But if you know the approximate time of deletion and have SMF records from that period, you could use freeware DAF (Dataset Audit Facility) from Michael Cleary

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2013-01-24 13:06, Bill Fairchild wrote: > I remember using "S X" a long time ago myself. There was no proclib member > named X, the member would not be found, but allocation was driven away so the > device went offline. This all worked fine until someone put a real member > into SYS1.PROCLI

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Ed Finnell
Yeah, I found it easier in the long run to Restore with Rename and figure it out from there. Hardest one I ever saw was a multi-volume with 5 AIXes spread all over the place. In a message dated 1/24/2013 2:57:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, darth.kel...@assurant.com writes: I could match u

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Darth Keller
Another option I have available to me is we run a daily DCOLLECT against all the volumes. I could match up the day the backup was created against that day's DCOLLECT & pull the information there. There are other ways & tools you can use to collect historical data. ddk ---

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:57:38 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: >Even if it is copyrighted, it is an example expressly designated as a >sample to be modified and shared. > That makes sense. Is there a publication where I can find this? In writing? IBM publication? Or is this part of copyright law, cove

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Darth Keller
So maybe I'm totally off-base here, but it seems to me like the original request is that he wanted to know from the tape what kind of VSAM files were on the backup. I ran with my Restore with PARM='TYPERUN=NORUN' and got this from the output. Granted it's not fool proof. You can pick out

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Don Williams
IEFBR14 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Varying off path while it is in use Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Remember the Ba

Re: Password (was: slightly O/T but interesting)

2013-01-24 Thread Art Gutowski
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:31:31 -0600, John McKown wrote: >I can top that. On the Windows side a person called in because they >forgot their Windows login id (not password). At that time it was >first initial plus last name. How could they have forgotten who they >were, but remember where they work

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-01-24 18:25, willie bunter pisze: Good Day All, Is there a way to differentiate or knowing what type of VSAM file it is. I had a problem earlier trying to RECATALOG the cluster (the dsn was restored from a physical DFDSS backup) and finally I was able to do so because I used parm N

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Fairchild
I remember using "S X" a long time ago myself. There was no proclib member named X, the member would not be found, but allocation was driven away so the device went offline. This all worked fine until someone put a real member into SYS1.PROCLIB named "X" to do something special, not knowing wh

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:15:26 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >On 1/24/2013 12:45 PM, Staller, Allan wrote: >> The behavior has changed. Used to be in MVT and early MVS that something >> needed to drive allocation to take a device offline. >> I personally have *never* used DEALLOC. Just a simp

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 1/24/2013 12:45 PM, Staller, Allan wrote: The behavior has changed. Used to be in MVT and early MVS that something needed to drive allocation to take a device offline. I personally have *never* used DEALLOC. Just a simple 'S X' (with no proc behind it) from the console was sufficient. Un

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Grinsell, Don
Do you have a backup of the appropriate catalog from the same time period? That should have the information you are looking for. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare." ~ Sun Tzu -Origi

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread willie bunter
Boris,   Thanks for the valuable information.   One last question.  With the problem I encountered, since the dataset was restored from a physical DFDSS  backup, only the DATA component was restored. I tried the LISTCAT of the .DATA component and since there was no cluster the LISTCAT was unsucc

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
These suggestions work if you did a query before it was deleted. Anything on the backup tape to indicate which one it is? > From: willie bunter > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 01/24/2013 11:25 AM > Subject:DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS > Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discus

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Check Section B.2.3 Attributes group to differentiate the VSAM clusters in below link which talks about Interpreting LISTCAT Output Listings. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2I2A0/B.0? The keywords you would be interested are INDEXED--The data component has an ind

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Boris Lenz
On Thu, January 24, 2013 18:25, willie bunter wrote: > I checked the LISTCAT however I didn't see anything.  Any suggestions? Examine the output of LISTCAT ENT(/) ALL. KSDS: - has DATA+INDEX ASSOCIATIONS in the CLUSTER section. - has an INDEXED ATTRIBUTE in the DATA section. VRRDS: - has DATA+IN

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Bill Oczak
The Organization field in Fileaid will display this information for you. Use the VSAM Utility which for me is option 3.5. Bill Oczak Assurant Inc. From: willie bunter To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 01/24/2013 11:25 AM Subject:DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS Sent by:

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Even if it is copyrighted, it is an example expressly designated as a sample to be modified and shared. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > And no IBM copyright notice. Does that mean you could post it > here, or is it copyright regardless of notice? -- Mike A Schwab, S

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Staller, Allan
The behavior has changed. Used to be in MVT and early MVS that something needed to drive allocation to take a device offline. I personally have *never* used DEALLOC. Just a simple 'S X' (with no proc behind it) from the console was sufficient. >It is still shipped in SYS1.PROCLIB(DEALLOC). >

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:50:57 -0600, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: >It is still shipped in SYS1.PROCLIB(DEALLOC). > Of course. Someone's JCL proc or MGCR might depend on it. And no DD statement. I remembered wrong. And no IBM copyright notice. Does that mean you could post it here, or is it copyrig

Re: Coupling facility - Non Volatile performance

2013-01-24 Thread Skip Robinson
We've been doing parallel sysplex since 1995. I've never heard of any performance implication. It's all about structure placement: some exploiters insist on placing their structures in nonvolatile CFs. We've run 'nonvolatile' for so long that I forget the gritty details, but I'm pretty sure tha

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
It is still shipped in SYS1.PROCLIB(DEALLOC). MA On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:41:53 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>Remember the Bad Old Days when the operator needed to submit a dummy job to >>make a device actually go offline? (Or does it still work that way?) >

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:51:10 -0600, Alan Field wrote: >I seem to recall a S DEALLOC command issued from the console (console >being a modified SELECTRIC typewriter) > >and > >//DEALLOC PROC >//S1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 > I thought you needed a DD statement, also. Was this because the allocation code w

Re: HMC-SE Interoperability

2013-01-24 Thread R.S.
Update I checked Technical Guides for EC12, z196 and z10. z10 guide has no chapter about HMC Both EC12 and z196 contain tables of compatibility SE to current (at the time of redbook writing) version of HMC. The tables show that even z990 machines are supported. This is also my knowledge and my e

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:54:21 -0600, John McKown wrote: >I remember this too. I just tried a VARY dasdunit,OFFLINE on z/OS 1.12 >and it immediately went off line, with the message being issued. > >We had a started task called DEALLOC > >S DEALLOC > >it looked like: > >//DEALLOC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 >

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 14:53 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Varying off path while it is in use John McKown wrote: >The path is only needed whi

Re: HMC-SE Interoperability

2013-01-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-01-24 15:51, Mark Zelden pisze: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:30:23 +0100, R.S. wrote: Where can I find information about supported HMC-SE code levels? AFAIK, in the old days I could connect HMC 2.9 to SE 1.8, despite 2.9 was Linux-based and SE was OS/2 based. Now I cannot connect HMC-SE

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread John McKown
I remember this too. I just tried a VARY dasdunit,OFFLINE on z/OS 1.12 and it immediately went off line, with the message being issued. We had a started task called DEALLOC S DEALLOC it looked like: //DEALLOC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 All it did was cause a step start, which went through ALLOCATION, wh

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Alan Field
I seem to recall a S DEALLOC command issued from the console (console being a modified SELECTRIC typewriter) and //DEALLOC PROC //S1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 Alan Field Technical Engineer Principal BCBS Minnesota Phone: 651.662.3546 Mobile: 651.428.8826 From: "Elardus Engelbrecht" To: I

Re: HMC-SE Interoperability

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:30:23 +0100, R.S. wrote: >Where can I find information about supported HMC-SE code levels? >AFAIK, in the old days I could connect HMC 2.9 to SE 1.8, despite 2.9 >was Linux-based and SE was OS/2 based. >Now I cannot connect HMC-SE 2.9 to 2.10 (and vice versa), because of

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Remember the Bad Old Days when the operator needed to submit a dummy job to >make a device actually go offline? (Or does it still work that way?) Geez, your memory is better than my decaying memory! Can you e-mail some [unused?] braincells to me? ;-D I only see [seldo

HMC-SE Interoperability

2013-01-24 Thread R.S.
Where can I find information about supported HMC-SE code levels? AFAIK, in the old days I could connect HMC 2.9 to SE 1.8, despite 2.9 was Linux-based and SE was OS/2 based. Now I cannot connect HMC-SE 2.9 to 2.10 (and vice versa), because of unsupported levels. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Pol

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:30:48 -0600, John McKown wrote: >The path is only needed while the SSCH is active (i.e. actual I/O is >being done). During this time, z/OS will not take the path offline. It >will mark the path as pending offline and not use it for future I/O. >Once the I/O is complete, it w

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John McKown wrote: >The path is only needed while the SSCH is active (i.e. actual I/O is being >done). During this time, z/OS will not take the path offline. It will mark the >path as pending offline and not use it for future I/O. Once the I/O is >complete, it will actually take the path offlin

Re: Stand-alone Dump Revisited

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:40:00 +0100, nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: >> I mentioned the AUTOIPL statement because it's easy to overlook. But yes, >> guaranteed that if there are multiple SAD output volumes, they need to be >> need to rebuilt using AMDSADDD because the volumes are chained together by >> un

Re: Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread John McKown
The path is only needed while the SSCH is active (i.e. actual I/O is being done). During this time, z/OS will not take the path offline. It will mark the path as pending offline and not use it for future I/O. Once the I/O is complete, it will actually take the path offline. So, you should not need

Varying off path while it is in use

2013-01-24 Thread Victor Zhang
Hello experts, One dumb question: For a Storagetek VSM product or IBM TS7700 product, I can have multiple channels connecting with them, I also know that a tape I/O must complete on the path where it is initiated. Please correct me if I am wrong. Based on this assumption, if there is a need to u

Re: Mktg: New Release of SyzMPF/z available

2013-01-24 Thread אריאל מרשנד
דני - דוגמה לשיווק בIBM Mainframe Discussion List : On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: Hi all, This is more of a marketing announcement (thus the subject line), but I wanted to let everyone on the list know, especially those customers

AW: OMVS deleted files/directories.

2013-01-24 Thread Klimek, Albert
Hi USS SMF records have some self-defining sections. ICETOOL needs fix offsets, therefore I use REXX. Here the SMF recordtype 92 subtype 14 report extract: vbsbytes= 4 /* */ process_record: /* */ /* SMF Record Type 92 Subtype 14 */